Available for contract work

Daniel Cantrell

Automation Solutions Architect and Technical Program Lead with 7+ years designing, delivering, and scaling enterprise automation programs. Currently building cloud-native data pipelines and AI-assisted development workflows.

Abingdon, VA · IBM • Dominion Energy • BiteBallot · UVA-Wise CS '19
RPA Team Lead — IBM
2021 – 2024

Served as the sole technical lead for IBM's Office of the CIO automation program. Led the full migration of 20+ production automations from Blue Prism to IBM RPA, including framework architecture, team onboarding, and stakeholder management across global teams in the US, Brazil, Europe, and Asia. Built reusable frameworks for standardized logging, error handling, and alerting. Owned the complete delivery lifecycle from requirements gathering through production support.

IBM RPA Blue Prism CP4BA SAP Jira ServiceNow
Software Developer, RPA — Wize Solutions
2019 – 2021

Built and maintained production automations using Automation Anywhere v11 and A360 for Dominion Energy. Delivered SAP financial workflows, cross-system data validation, invoice lifecycle management, and reusable bot frameworks. Collaborated with business analysts and SMEs on process discovery and delivery.

Automation Anywhere SAP REST APIs Dominion Energy
Founder & Developer — BiteBallot
2024 – Present

Designing and building a cloud-native data ingestion platform that converts unstructured inputs into validated, structured data using multi-stage extraction with OCR, ASR, and LLM-based schema enforcement. Architected on GCP with Dockerized Python services, Firebase, and event-driven orchestration.

React Native TypeScript Firebase GCP Docker Python

Solution Architecture

Process discovery, solution design, reusable framework development, exception handling hierarchies, coding standards, test plans

Program Leadership

Platform migration, team leadership, sprint management, stakeholder coordination, bot audits, cost-saving analysis

Automation Platforms

Blue Prism, IBM RPA, CP4BA, Business Automation Workflow, Automation Anywhere v11 & A360, Selenium

Technical

Python, TypeScript, React Native, SQL, Docker, Firebase, GCP Cloud Run/Functions/Pub/Sub, REST APIs, SAP GUI

Data & Integration

Web scraping, data extraction pipelines, OCR/ASR processing, LLM integration, API integrations, ServiceNow, Jira

Certifications

AA Certified Advanced RPA Professional (v11), IBM RPA Cloud Advanced, IBM RPA Cloud Intermediate

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BiteBallot

Collaborative meal planning iOS app with group voting, recipe organization, and smart shopping lists. Supports recipe import from web pages, PDFs, screenshots, handwritten cards, and video links using a multi-stage extraction pipeline. Built with React Native, Firebase, and Dockerized Python services on GCP.

App Store biteballot.com

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

University of Virginia's College at Wise — 2019

GPA: 3.625 • Darden Honor Society • Outstanding Senior in Computer Science

Available for contract automation work, consulting engagements, and technical program leadership.